?Rin Tin Tin,? by Susan Orlean, is a look at the dog of movie and TV fame.

In September 1918, an American soldier named Lee Duncan found ?a frantic German shepherd female with a litter of five puppies? in the Meuse Valley of France. Duncan was an animal lover whose immediate instinct was to rescue the forlorn dogs. He managed to do so ? in the circumstances, it wasn?t easy ? and to get the dogs back to his base. He ?knew he couldn?t manage all the dogs,? so he gave away the mother and three of the puppies, and ?kept the two prettiest, a male and a female, for himself.? He named the dogs after dolls that were then popular good-luck charms: The female became Nanette and the male Rin Tin Tin.

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